A lightning strike exposes a glaring hole in Azure cloud’s availability strategy. Source: Azure Outage Proves the Hard Way that Availability Zones are a Good Idea Microsoft Azure started patching a glaring hole in its availability strategy last September, when it...

We must ensure that the opportunities afforded by data centres are not offset by their negative impact on climate change, write Antoinette Sandbach and Daniel Zeichner Source: Antoinette Sandbach and Daniel Zeichner: Is staying online costing the Earth? |...

With a stroke of the pen, President Trump took one small step in dismantling the federal government’s IT bureaucracy. And yet, if done right, his May 15 executive order (EO) could turn into the giant leap that finally brings a… Source: Federal Agencies Should Focus on...

Mary Branscombe | Jun 18, 2018 Data centers are getting both bigger and smaller. The economies of scale that drive hyperscale cloud are creating larger and larger facilities, while at the other end of the spectrum, increasingly smaller sites support growing demands of...